twister2920

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by twister2920 3mo ago
> I'm on a handful of software dev subreddits and the amount of new products popping up has tripled since these tools became available. > I also don't understand how you'd expect to measure this I'm confused, are w
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by twister2920 3mo ago
it's hard to take this stock dismissal seriously when it's been repeated ad nauseum, for years, every time a new generation is released.
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by twister2920 3mo ago
That's correct, it's 18.5 million people, which is in the tens of millions
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by twister2920 3mo ago
> measurements, when executed correctly, are objective with numeric evidence, thus some people are wholly incapable of measuring things for the same reasons some people cannot introspect you can't measure everything, and choosing wh
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by twister2920 3mo ago
> to do this I had to give up reading or even controlling the code and focusing on behavior/design-level control (not superficial, still dictating overall technical architecture) how do you verify the behavior? are you still writing
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by twister2920 3mo ago
> gave me a checklist that helped me quell my travel anxiety. it's truly fascinating how many positive descriptions of AI gesture at emotional management. I think that's the killer feature of this technology -- it makes people
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by twister2920 3mo ago
[citation needed]
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by twister2920 3mo ago
> Try to pretend that's not a useful tool to use when you have to fix bugs or add features to a large codebase you aren't already familiar with. how will I know the answers are accurate?
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by twister2920 3mo ago
not really the same thing
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by twister2920 3mo ago
"the last decision these people made was obviously stupid, but trust me bro that this one is smart"
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by twister2920 3mo ago
this whole argument is illusory. nobody is arguing in good faith based on repeatable experiments. this debate is 100% based on how this technology makes one feel, and whether one is speculating for or against future economic returns from th
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by twister2920 3mo ago
> agents are only as good as you are that doesn't sound like a net benefit at all. I think mostly people just enjoy playing with these toys, and good developers are still good with them, bad developers still bad
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by twister2920 3mo ago
coding is the one area Ed has acknowledged productivity gains. hard evidence is still lacking though
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by twister2920 3mo ago
and some species' females require a blood meal before laying eggs :(
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by twister2920 3mo ago
yes
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by twister2920 3mo ago
please elaborate, I love learning new things
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by twister2920 3mo ago
> There is a reason this man doesn't heavily short the same companies he criticizes yes, because in order to take a short position you have to predict exactly when the bubble is going to pop, which is different from predicting tha
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by twister2920 3mo ago
> coding agents (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex) only started working really well in late November, sigh reset the clock everyone!
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by twister2920 3mo ago
> Well yeah, and I've automated my workflows completely. I don't have the problems I used to have. If you haven't caught on to the new way of working, well, that's a skill issue... I use LLMs, but they're just a
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by twister2920 3mo ago
> And each time you do one of those, there's a decent chance you did something even more trivial like forgetting a semicolon or calling the wrong function. how did you decide to pick the most trivial kind regression for this example
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by twister2920 3mo ago
touched a nerve huh?
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by twister2920 3mo ago
see parent comment
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by twister2920 3mo ago
have you considered that you're not the person this argument is trying to convince?
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by twister2920 3mo ago
what a delightfully vague story!
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by twister2920 3mo ago
you seem very emotionally attached to what is, at the end of the day, just one of many version control systems.
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by twister2920 3mo ago
> It's harder than you think. well, yeah, I'm not a large language model
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by twister2920 3mo ago
easy solution is to design ahead of PR time
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by twister2920 3mo ago
of course we can, that's not what the original comment said though
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by twister2920 3mo ago
do you think everyone who claims to be confused by git is making it up? or do you just think you're better than them?
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by twister2920 3mo ago
> They believe they themselves will be out of jobs at that point. now THAT is cynical

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